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Lisa Ngo & Nina Pareja
Period 4
Transgenic animals may not be natural, but keep in mind that not everything natural is healthy for us. Poisonous plants are not good for us but they are natural. Washing our food is not natural but it is healthier. Transgenic animals have also helped us find many cures and treatments for diseases and have progressed agriculture, medicine and industry.
2. Nutritional Supplements and Pharmaceuticals
3. Human Gene Therapy
Proteins produced by the Transgenic animals benefit to curing diseases. The first therapeutic protein produced in the milk of transgenic animals was antithrombin that treats patients with a congenital deficiency.
This is the process of adding a normal gene (transgene) to the genome of someone carrying defective copies of the gene
Industrial
Agriculturally
An animal that has modification of its genome, the genetic makeup of an organism responsible for the inherited traits.
1. Produced for certain economic traits. Ex: Particular transgenic cattle produce milk containing proteins to help humans with emphysema
Medical Applications
1) Xenotransplantation
2. Produced as disease models, animals genetically modified to show disease symptoms so proper effective treatment can be studied.
Thousands of patients wait for an organ donor to transplant their own defective organ. However, Transgenic animals can go through xenotransplantation, a procedure in which an organ from a healthy animal is transplanted into a human patient.
According to the most current report from
the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS),
more than 107,241 Americans were waiting
for organ transplantation as of May 2010.
In 2009, 28,464 patients had transplants, and approximately 40% of listed candidates
on waiting list were younger than 50 years.
Retrovirus Gene Transfer
Embryonic Stem Cell Gene Transfer